Posts tagged "gender"

As told to Lauren Gitlin. It was always kind of under the surface, this idea that I wasn't quite comfortable with my body. I remember looking at this book my parents gave me when I was 8 years old and I saw drawings of what men's bodies were like and what women's bodies were…

The only people I know who own trucks are women. I know two female truck owners, but that's not that exciting, because I don't live a Truck Lifestyle. Perhaps Chevy, makers of the Silverado pick-up truck, have realized that they know a lot of female truck drivers, too, because they've created this ad (finally!) focused…

Four days ago, a royal child entered the world in a hospital wing in London. It didn't take long for bloggers across the pond to start fighting about it. Here's that happened: blogger Heina Dadabhoy, who writes for the feminist-minded secularism/atheism blog Skepchick, pointed out on Twitter how Prince George was neither…

Growing up, transgender teenager Katie Hill knew she should have been born a girl, not a boy. At 18, she transitioned from her male body to a female form. Her boyfriend, Arin Andrews, also knew he'd been born in the wrong body -- but in his case, he identified as male, not with his female-born body.

Guys, I love sarcasm. It's a heady, delicious treat I eat up on the hour. But even I have my sarcasm limits. Case in point: Gawker writer Hamiliton Nolan's response to a piece by xoJane writer s.e. smith about the western appropriation of Eastern religion, specifically in the context of…

Boyfriends! When there isn't a cat or a guinea pig around, they're always great to dress up in a silly outfit. Or, your own clothes. Photographer Jon Uriarte is has done a portrait series called "The men under the influence..." of men dressed in their wives' or girlfriends' clothing inside the couple's shared living space. The…

A woman in Kalamazoo, Michigan claims that she has been fired for showing up to work at the restaurant, Harvey’s on the Mall, in dressed as a man. The restaurant, however, claims that her termination had nothing to do with her gender-bending outfit, but rather with her failure to comply with the restaurant’s dress code.

When a 66-year-old Chinese man went to the hospital complaining of a swollen abdomen, he got a diagnosis he wasn't expecting. The abdominal pain was a cyst on one of his ovaries. This was news to him. With the ability to grow a beard and male anatomy, he never had reason to suspect he wa…

The Hub, a children's network, is soon debuting an Australian cartoon called "SheZow" about a 12-year-old boy who morphs into ... a girl! Gus turns into SheZow, a superhero girl, when he says "You go girl!" and suddenly becomes clad in a purple skirt and pink gloves. And yes, conservatives are losing their mind over…

Here’s this article entitled, “The Flip Side Of Being A Female Breadwinner,” another one of those what-does-it-all-mean pieces (yes, there’s an evolutionary psychologist quoted, if you’re playing Navel-Gazey Trend Story Bingo back at home) that takes one person’s experience and blows it up in hopes of making a statement, vaguely tinged with some…

A women's studies class at the University of Saskatchewan made this provocative video which questions commonly perpetuated stereotypes about gender in media. Pointing out that women are often in a subjugated position -- turned into objects themselves, along with whatever object they're supposedly selling, placed in prone, sexually provocative poses -- the video connects violent…

A few days ago, author Maureen Johnson tweeted, "I do wish I had a dime for every email I get that says, 'Please put a non-girly cover on your book so I can read it. - signed, A Guy,'" and the Coverflip challenge was born. Johnson asked her followers to "take a well-know…

Students at a Swedish high school have requested and received a gender neutral changing room as part of the school's locker room for any student that wants to use it. Soedra Latins upper secondary school already has male and female locker rooms, but students proposed last year that they have an additional space for student…

Just in case you weren't clear why we still need feminism to break down the sexism of culturally-prescribed gender roles: MTV announced yesterday it greenlit a new reality TV show called "Guy Court" which will straight-up judge bros on their bro-itude. Explains Yahoo: In the half-hour comedic courtroom series "Guy Court," which will premiere i…

We introduced you to model Casey Legler before -- she's the gorgeous former Olympic swimmer who's signed as a male model with Ford Models, and has been forging a successful fashion career ever since. In the video above, she talks to a couple of bewildered CNN anchors about being discovered by photographer Ca…

This piece was cross-posted with permission from the Ms. Magazine Blog. On Tuesday, Mother Jones released an audio recording of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaking with members of his reelection staff. Much of the conversation focused on actor Ashley Judd, who, until recently, was rumored to be mulling a ru…

"Deciding to wear a skirt onstage in September was a personal landmark. It was the first time I had ever worn a skirt in public—and I would be doing so in front of a couple of thousand people. The skirt was a gift from a friend—it was black and leather, and it fit me great.

The New York Times is getting a run for its money in the dubiously-credible lifestyle articles department. Today's contender: the Wall Street Journal's "Who's Your Office Mom?" which continues on another page with the statement-making headline, "Every Office Needs A Mom." Really, WSJ, really?

If you haven't had a chance to read Kate Bornstein's memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, go out right now and buy it. The woman has lived an incredible life -- from being a male Scientology scout, to prize-winning playwright, trans activist and gender outlaw -- and somehow managed to kee…

The blogger behind the parenting site Ben and Birdy recently had a run-in with a man who mistook her son for a girl. The incident happened in a public restroom, and the man vocally made a scene, questioning the boy's gender and his right to be in a male public restroom. Appalled by…

Simply Irresistible

Taking a page out of those girls you went to high school with who can't stop smugly posting every detail of their perfect lives on Facebook, Lady Gaga shaded America's youngest grandma Taylor Swift just perfectly on Twitter yesterday. It all started when Jaime King's unborn child's godmother tweeted about Gaga, using the preferred…

Oh look, it's hottest DILF alive, Ryan Gosling, making a rare appearance in public grabbing lunch in LA today. And what's that I see? In addition to his perfectly worn T-shirt (that collar is stretched just so), hoodie and leather jacket, the Gos is rocking a few faint letters on his knuckles, spelling out the…